A 71-year-old student skydiver and her experienced instructor died Sunday after their parachute failed to open. The spare parachute did manage to open but did not expand properly. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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The pair jumped in tandem shortly before noon over Mesquite, Nev.
Police said after their main parachute failed to deploy, the instructor — aged in his 60s with nearly 11,000 jumps to his name — tried to open a back-up chute, but it was tangled and did not deploy properly.
The instructor died after landing on the tarmac at the Mesquite Municipal Airport, while the woman was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
Authorities were withholding the names of the victims until their families had been notified.
A handful of other tandem teams who jumped with the pair Sunday were able to land safely.
Skydive Mesquite owner Brad Jessey told the Review-Journal his business will remain closed while Federal Aviation Administration officials conduct an investigation.

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